Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7233017-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Stones Centre
- Town
- Malinslee
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Children’s SLT Community Clinical Lead with Triage and Advice Line
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
This is an opportunity to develop your career and your practice with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
The role provides opportunities to develop both your clinical and team leadership, and your service delivery and performance management skills.
If you would like to:
- Be part of the Children's SLT leadership team; implementing, developing, and evaluating the children's SLT service and supporting the delivery of evidence based outcomes across the SLT service for children with speech, language and communication needs.
- Provide clinical leadership for the triage and advice line services. To work in close partnership with other professionals and organisations to deliver an integrated model of care, making a significant contribution to improving health, social and education outcomes, and reducing inequalities.
- Be responsible for issues relating to clinical and best practice in early years and school settings, alongside education colleagues.
- And continue to provide direct highly specialist SLT care for children, their families and educational practitioners.
Then this will be a fascinating role for you to consider!
Main duties of the job
This is a highly specialist clinical post as described in the job profile. The post holder is required to work independently as an advanced practitioner and adviser within it.
- To advise Clinical Service Manager/Team Leader on service development and deliver for children and young adults.
- To act as an advisor in relation to triage clinical decision making and the advice line.
- To monitor and support other members of the team through co-working, coaching, mentoring and training.
- To liaise with Clinical Service Manager/Team Leader and colleagues on development of service protocols and patient pathways to improve client experience and ensure safe practice.
- To provide highly specialist assessment, differential diagnosis and appropriate therapy intervention for children referred to the service across settings.
- To provide specialist advice, strategies, programmes of work and reports on children with complex speech, language and communication difficulties as appropriate within these settings.
- To provide specialist advice, liaison with other professionals, strategies, programmes of work and reports on children with complex speech, language communication including those with additional needs.
- To work collaboratively with parents/carers, sharing knowledge and skills and supporting them to develop their understanding of their child’s speech, language and communication difficulties and how they can help their child communicate.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Holds recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent.
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist courses up to Master’s Degree or equivalent, or advanced experiential training within specialism.
- Holds Health Professions Council license to practice.
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Member of RCSLT Clinical Excellence Networks
- Leadership or Management Training or willingness to complete NHS recognised programme up to Masters level.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at post-graduate level working with children and young people with a range of speech, language and communication needs.
- Extensive experience of working in partnership with staff in early years/school/college settings supporting children with complex needs
- Extensive experience at post-graduate level of using, analysing and reporting findings from a variety of tests and formal/informal assessments.
- Extensive experience of delivering specialist training which might include accredited packages such as Elklan, Makaton or Parent and setting coaching such as Early Bird /+.
- Experience of supporting/managing Speech and Language Therapy and /or other health colleagues through line management, mentoring/coaching.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly specialist knowledge of different therapeutic assessments, interventions and techniques and ability to evaluate and report their effectiveness.
- Excellent analytical and reflective skills.
- Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills.
- Excellent organisation, negotiation and problem solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy.
- Extensive knowledge of national policies and procedures pertinent to the Speech and language Therapy profession and education.
- To have competent IT skills to enable to exchange of information and collective of data.
Essential
Essential criteria
- Must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsty English
- Job title
- Community SLT Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07773259184
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